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October 26, 2018
Comments to HHS on Michigan 1115 Waiver Project
Jane Perkins Comments
In comments to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the National Health Law Program urges the department to reject Michigan’s Sec. 1115 Medicaid waiver application, because it would increase premiums and impose unlawful conditions of eligibility, including required healthy behavior and work-related activities. In previous comments to…
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August 10, 2018
Fact Sheet: Medicaid Demonstration Waivers & Reproductive Justice
Priscilla Huang and Candace Gibson Fact Sheet
Medicaid is an important lifeline for the 25 million women enrolled in the program. Women of color, women with disabilities, single mothers, and women from other underserved populations disproportionately depend on Medicaid for affordable health care coverage. In this fact sheet, the National Health Law Program along with All* Above…
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July 25, 2018
Flack v. Wisconsin Department of Health Services Preliminary Injunction Decision
Andy DiAntonio Court Document, Cases
The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin issued a preliminary injunction prohibiting Wisconsin health officials from enforcing a sweeping ban on medically necessary care for Wisconsin's transgender Medicaid beneficiaries. Read the preliminary injunction decision in Flack v. Wisconsin Department of Health Services. Earlier this year, the…
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July 6, 2018
Groups Urge CMS Action on Kentucky’s Cuts to Medicaid Services
Jane Perkins Letter
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) should reject the Kentucky governor's "Alternative Benefit Plan (ABP) State Plan Amendment (SPA)," which took effect on July 1, according to the National Health Law Program, Kentucky Equal Justice Center and the Southern Poverty Law Center in a July 6 letter sent…
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June 13, 2018
Fast Facts: Stewart v. Azar Oral Argument
Jane Perkins and Mara Youdelman Issue Brief, Case Explainer
What you need to know about June 15 oral argument in the federal class action lawsuit from Kentuckians challenging the Trump administration's approval of an onerous Medicaid waiver scheme that includes burdensome work requirements, high premiums, lock outs, and elimination of retroactive health care coverage. Read National Health Law…
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May 25, 2018
NHeLP Urges HHS to Reject Plan to Weaken Medicaid Equal Access Provisions
Andy DiAntonio Comments
National Health Law Program in comments to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services urges the rejection of a plan being pushed by Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma to weaken Medicaid regulations intended to ensure that CMS is enforcing "access to covered services in…
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Comments to HHS on Michigan 1115 Waiver Project

Fact Sheet: Medicaid Demonstration Waivers & Reproductive Justice

Flack v. Wisconsin Department of Health Services Preliminary Injunction Decision

Groups Urge CMS Action on Kentucky’s Cuts to Medicaid Services

Fast Facts: Stewart v. Azar Oral Argument

NHeLP Urges HHS to Reject Plan to Weaken Medicaid Equal Access Provisions